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Kate Andrews |
03/26/10 |
| Sophie Thomas’ Starck Reality! |
As many of you will be aware, famed designer Philippe Starck launched 'Design for Life' last month, his very own reality show not too dissimilar in format to The Apprentice. Aired on BBC2 as the Greengaged week was underway at the Design Council, the third episode of the series attempted to… |
Kate Andrews |
10/12/09 |
| Greengaged Nominated for Cooper-Hewitt People’s Design Award |
Exciting news! Greengaged has been nominated for the Cooper-Hewitt People's Design Award 2009! A huge thank you to everyone - curators, speakers, tech team, twitterers, volunteers and all our audience members for raising the Greengaged profile Stateside. Please login to the website, add a comment about any events you've been too, and… |
Kate Andrews |
10/04/09 |
| The 2012 Imperative Teach-in |
On October 12th 2009, London's Ecological Literacy Initiative EcoLabs are running their inaugural "Teach-In" - a student conference aiming to help the design industry embrace ecological literacy & systemic change. Several hundred of students are scheduled to attend the event at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, whilst the entire event will… |
Kate Andrews |
10/04/09 |
| London Graphic Designers Learn Letterpress |
During day four Crafting Mass Production at greengaged last week (full coverage coming soon), Anna Gerber told the story of our day spent with newly founded design agency Workshop, at their letterpress studio in East London. I'm pleased to be able to share a short video of the day, kindly edited by Varvara… |
Kate Andrews |
10/02/09 |
| Best Practice: BioTecture’s Window on Design |
photos by Travis Drever Showcasing great examples of award-winning British design, the "Window on Design" at the Design Council offices in Covent Garden had a green inspired project on display during the Greengaged 2009 week! For those of you who didn't get the chance to see the display, we wanted to… |
Kate Andrews |
09/29/09 |
| Greengaged London |
photo by: Chiara Terraneo Just a quick post to say what an incredible week we all had during Greengaged last week. Thanks to all five of our curators, and their extensive list of participating speakers! And, of course thanks to everyone who came to the events of last week. We… |
Kate Andrews |
09/29/09 |
| Designing Systems for the Common Good |
photo by Chiara Terraneo Our second curator, John Grant kicked off Tuesday's session on "Co-opportunity", proposing the question; "How can we create (banking and financial) systems, for the common good?" With speeches from Josh Ryan Collins of the New Economics Foundation, and Chris Wise & Ed McCann of Expedition Engineering, John led an interactive morning session. Beginning by sketching the agenda… |
Kate Andrews |
09/25/09 |
| Confess Your Earthly Sins! |
photos by: Travis Drever For those of you who have been at Greengaged this week you will have spotted a curious looking confessional booth, and probably have been wondering what that was for. Well... on Monday at Greengaged, Ed Gillespie brought with him Futerra's "Earthly Sins Confessional Booth"! Ed didn't… |
Kate Andrews |
09/24/09 |
| Dan Lockton on Designing With Intent |
photo by: Travis Drever Our second guest writer for Greengaged.com this week is Dan Lockton, researcher in Brunel University's Cleaner Electronics Research Group investigating design for sustainable behaviour, in theory and practice. Dan attended Greengaged last year and having spent the day with us again on Monday, for Ed Gillespie's… |
Kate Andrews |
09/23/09 |
| Best Practice: The Uniform Project - 1 dress. 365 days |
photo by: Chiara Terraneo Earlier this week Greengaged was pleased to welcome Sheena Matheiken of The Uniform Project to Ed Gillespie's panel on behaviour change in fashion and travel. The Uniform Project is all about one ambitious and highly creative woman, who is wearing one black shift dress for 365… |
Kate Andrews |
09/23/09 |
| Ed Gillespie on Design for Life |
photo by: Travis Drever On Monday 21st September, under the theme of "Design for Life: Barriers to Behaviour Change", our first guest curator Ed Gillespie ran the inaugural day of Greengaged 2009. Joined by an esteemed array of guest speakers incl. Roman Krznaric, Professor John Wood, Martin Hoelne, Alastair Fuad Luke,… |
Kate Andrews |
09/23/09 |
| Win a Tour of Kew Gardens’ Economic Botany Collection |
Is biomimicry at the core of your design process? Join Michael Pawlyn tomorrow at Greengaged to find out how it could be! All those in attendance tomorrow will be given the opportunity to win a place on a small group tour around The Economic Botany Collection at Kew Gardens, with Collections… |
Kate Andrews |
09/22/09 |
| Greengaged Kicks Off for 2009! |
photo by: Travis Drever Early yesterday morning, Greengaged 2009 at the Design Council, kicked off for London Design Festival! Following a warm welcome from Greengaged co-founder Sophie Thomas and David Kester, Chief Executive of the Design Council, the day was seamlessly handed over to the first of this weeks five guest curators, Ed… |
Kate Andrews |
09/22/09 |
| What is Greengaged? |
As Greengaged 2009 gets underway at the Design Council, I'm pleased to share our first Greengaged video. Featuring the voices of co-founders Sophie Thomas, Sarah Johnson and Anne Chick, and the Design Council's Chief Executive David Kester, this short film offers a brief insight into the aims and 2008 success… |
Kate Andrews |
09/22/09 |
| A Greengaged Day of Print Production |
A few months ago, Greengaged curator Anna Gerber and the team at Three Trees Don't Make a Forest were invited to visit London's “local” paper mill: Tullis Russell in Fife, Scotland. Joined by Sion Whellens of Calverts and Luke Nicholson of More Associates, Anna explains how 'the trip made a real… |
Kate Andrews |
09/17/09 |
| Biomimicry in Design: Learning from Nature |
On Wednesday, 23rd September, Michael Pawlyn, founder of Exploration Architecture, will host day three of this years greengaged hub, Biomimicry in Design: Learning from Nature. Join Michael Pawlyn, a pioneer of biomimetic architecture, and other prominent thinkers in this rapidly emerging area of design for this day of astounding talks and inspiring… |
Kate Andrews |
09/14/09 |
| Design for Life: Barriers to Behaviour Change? |
On Monday 21st September, Ed Gillespie of Futerra and the first of our 2009 curators, will be curating day one of Greengaged at the Design Council. Looking at issues surrounding travel, energy and housing his day is aptly titled, Design for Life: Barriers to Behaviour Change? With a growing list of… |
Kate Andrews |
09/07/09 |
| Greengaged China |
Built on the successful programme of events at London Design Festival 2008 and the lineup for 2009, Greengaged is spreading its reach even further and are pleased announce we are going international!! In China, Greengaged are working with partners such as Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), British Council China and the Design for Social… |
Kate Andrews |
08/31/09 |
| The Bigger Picture |
Responding to current economic, social and environmental crises, London's NEF (the new economics foundation) have recently launched plans for "The Bigger Picture: A Festival of Interdependence", a series of creative activities and events beginning in autumn 2009. The festival will culminate in a large-scale, free public event in central London… |
Kate Andrews |
07/24/09 |
| Yann Arthus Bertrand tells the story of our HOME |
During a TED Talks binge earlier this month, I found myself watching 'Yann Arthus Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle'. As GoodPlanet Fundation President, and the brains behind both The Earth from Above and the socially insightful project 6 Billion Others, Yann Arthus Bertrand is someone I am continually inspired by. Self-described as "an ode to the planet's beauty… |
Kate Andrews |
07/22/09 |
| Greengaged 2009 Curators |
To be held once again during London Design Festival, Greengaged 2009 at the Design Council introduces an exciting new programme, and five brilliant guest curators that will each create a day based around their expert subject arena. In the latest feature for Greengaged.com, Greengaged co-founder Sophie Thomas welcomes Ed Gillespie, John Grant, Michael Pawlyn, Anna Gerber and Dan… |
Kate Andrews |
07/21/09 |
| 100% Design - Sustainable Design |
During last years London Design Festival, 100% Design London spoke to a number leading figures in the design industry, asking them to share their expertise and opinions on the complexities, issues, concerns and contradictions in sustainable design. This short film offers an insight into the views of Vicky Richardson (Editor, Blueprint),… |
Kate Andrews |
06/29/09 |
| Exclusive podcast: Michael Braungart & Phillip Ball |
photo by: Kate Andrews During last September, Greengaged '08 was pleased to unveil the exclusive news of Professor Michael Braungart's revised introduction to the UK edition of ‘Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things’. We were then lucky enough, on Monday 22nd September, to have Braungart close the penultimate day of Greengaged '08, with a lecture… |
Kate Andrews |
06/26/09 |
| Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet |
Bringing together key figures since the 1960s who have created utopian works and inspiring solutions for our ever-changing planet, Radical Nature–Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet (1969–2009) is the current art and design exhibition open until 18 Oct 2009 at London's Barbican Centre. "The beauty and wonder of nature have provided inspiration… |
Kate Andrews |
06/22/09 |
| The Age of Stupid |
Pitched to be this year's most talked-about climate change film, The Age of Stupid is a new movie from director Franny Armstrong |
Kate Andrews |
06/22/09 |
| The Age of Stupid |
In Franny Armstrong's epic motion picture The Age of Stupid, famed actor Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking back at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance? On Friday 22nd May 2009, I attended… |
Kate Andrews |
06/17/09 |
| Greengaged is back! |
photo by: Kate Andrews Welcome everyone to the new and improved Greengaged website! After an energetic ten days at London Design Festival 2008, the Greengaged hub is taking brand new directions for 2009 and beyond! We have gained international recognition for the events of last summer and the discussions and… |
Kate Andrews |
06/17/09 |
| Design and Chemistry |
It is estimated that over 90% of production materials do not end up in saleable products and 80% of products are discarded after a single use. This is causing us to rapidly consume the planet’s resources including metals, minerals, clean water and fossil fuels. Sustainable chemistry technologies are being used… |
Kate Andrews |
09/28/08 |
| A Design Challenge Like No Other |
Early on Monday morning, Greengaged’s penultimate day kicked off with an informative discussion about the future of design education. Speakers included Tracy Bhamra (Loughborough University), Ian Capewell (Practical Action), and Emma Dewberry (Open University). |
Kate Andrews |
09/25/08 |
| Reframing the ‘Design Solution’ |
During Monday’s educational session Greengaged welcomed sustainable design reader Dr Tracy Bhamra, from Loughborough University. Bhamra began her presentation with an overview of her sustainable design teaching and expressed how she believes that “a sustainable design module needs to be something that everyone has to think about and not considered as… |
Kate Andrews |
09/25/08 |
| Night Tour; Re-thinking the City |
Very late on Friday evening Greengaged took to the streets of London, for an exciting night tour entitled ‘Re-thinking the City”. Following an exhilarating appearance earlier last week, in the magical “Imagine 2058” workshop, London United’s interdisciplinary co-founder Aladin led the tour and explains how over 100 people had applied!… |
Kate Andrews |
09/24/08 |
| Greengaged Visits Powerday |
In the second part of the Greengaged event, “Wasted Talent”, the twenty-five piece group of designers, writers and academics arrived at Powerday waste recycling centre on Thursday morning. We were warmly met by Chris and John from Powerday, who after a brief introduction split us into two groups for an… |
Kate Andrews |
09/21/08 |
| Sustainable Design for Print |
Did you know that recycling one tonne of paper can save 7000 gallons of water, 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, 3 cubic yards of landfill space and 4000kw of energy!? On Friday afternoon, non profit enterprise Three Trees Don’t Make a Forest held a three hour sustainable print and… |
Kate Andrews |
09/21/08 |
| The Joy of Not Being Sold Anything |
As part of the greenwash debate on Friday evening, Sophie Thomas (thomas.matthews) showed the above image. It really makes you think twice about our consumer culture, when we are faced with blank billboards. This grafitti was produced by Banksy (of course)... see a video of the artist celebrating the blank… |
Kate Andrews |
09/21/08 |
| Should we believe the hype? |
On Friday evening, the Greengaged week closed with a vibrant debate on Greenwashing. Chaired by Lucy Siegle, The Observer, panelists were John Grant (author of The Green Marketing Manifesto, co-founder of St Luke’s and London United), Chris Sherwin (Forum for the Future), Richard George (Plane Stupid), Ed Gillespie (Futerra), Stewart… |
Kate Andrews |
09/21/08 |
| Greengaged Update |
Well, it really has been an amazing first week here at Greengaged, with a whole host of leading voices taking the opportunity to discuss and challenge the role of design to positively effect our environment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has attended so far… |
Kate Andrews |
09/21/08 |
| Is it Legal to Recycle Design? |
As a designer, not only can you use resources that are renewable you can also re-use other people’s material such as packaging or photographs. But, how can you avoid legal pitfalls, how far can you go when re-cycling designs and materials? |
Kate Andrews |
09/20/08 |
| A World of Rubbish |
“Its dirty, its dusty, it smells. Welcome to the world of rubbish!” In the most innovative excursion of the Greengaged week, here we all were on Thursday morning at Powerday waste recycling plant. What an eye opening reality for designers to witness. A full review of the trip coming shortly! If… |
Kate Andrews |
09/20/08 |
| Best Practice: Remarkable Products |
Following an introduction to her work as Design Week’s green columnist in the early ’90s and the publication of the first green graphic design book, “The Graphic Designer’s Greenbook: A Handbook and Source Guide on Design and the Environment”, Anne Chick (Director of the Sustainable Design Research Centre, Kingston University)… |
Kate Andrews |
09/20/08 |
| The Need to ‘Design Out’ Waste |
Early thursday morning, on the sunlit banks of The Grand Union Canal, 25 people took residence on the Electric Barge to take a trip to Powerday waste recycling plant. Docked at Little Venice in Paddington, the electrically powered barge is a silently running and environmentally sound answer to canal travel. |
Kate Andrews |
09/20/08 |
| Exclusive: Crade to Cradle Revision! |
In November 2008, Professor Michael Braungart will launch a new UK edition of ‘Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things’, the prolific and best-selling manifesto “calling for the transformation of human industry through ecologically intelligent design.” Greengaged are excited to announce that the new edition will be published… |
Kate Andrews |
09/20/08 |
| Designer As Agent of Change |
On Wednesday night at Greengaged we welcomed Pio Barone Lumaga from LOFT Bookazine in Stockholm for an inspiring hands on session, exploring design, psychology, innovation and emotion. Using a quick thought experiment, he encouraged participants to break down our existing thought patterns in order to unlock creative potential and allow… |
Kate Andrews |
09/19/08 |
| Green Your Studio! |
Sophie Thomas and Nat Hunter of Three Trees Don’t Make a Forest took to the Greengaged stage on Tuesday afternoon, to offer designers their insights, opinions and advice on how to make their studio’s greener. The workshop was engaging, and the advice realistic. Where to start? Make a list, calculate the… |
Kate Andrews |
09/18/08 |
| Best Practice: Product Design |
In the second series of best practice case studies on Product Design, Simon Terry of Anglepoise, Cressida Granger of DeWeNe and Tom Fishburne from Method Products each presented a fifteen minute presentation of their ethical design practices at greengaged on Tuesday 16th September. |
Kate Andrews |
09/18/08 |
| Best Practice: Provokateur / We Want Tap |
As part of the greengaged best practice case studies on Tuesday morning, Joshua Blackburn presented the work of five-year young communication design agency, Provokateur. Explaining the teams motivation to influence good behavioural change, he presented We Want Tap, their consumer campaign and product line. The campaign is simple, the ambition is… |
Kate Andrews |
09/18/08 |
| Best Practice: thomas.matthews |
On Tuesday September 16th, day two of greengaged kicked off with a series of best practice case studies from leading design practitioners. The first series of events, focused on Communication and Graphic Design, began with a presentation from Sophie Thomas, director/co-founder of thomas.matthews. Sophie introduced the work of thomas.matthews, explaining that… |
Kate Andrews |
09/18/08 |
| Sustainable Terminology |
Many discussions over the past three days here at Greengaged have questioned the validity of the word ’sustainability’. What does it really mean today? Do designers have differing perspectives of its definition and meaning? And possibly more importantly, do the public listen and how do they react when they hear… |
Kate Andrews |
09/17/08 |
| What do you see, in 2058? |
Following London United’s inspiring workshop 'Imagine 2058', we would like to encourage you all to take yourself on your own journey to the year 2058. So, take a moment to relax, close your eyes and walk around the city… 50 years from now. What can you see? What does the… |
Kate Andrews |
09/17/08 |
| Imagine 2058 |
At 6.30pm on Monday 15th September 2008, as a full moon rose over Covent Garden, John Grant, Aladin and other members of the 11 strong London United collective took to the greengaged limelight for their first ever workshop, “Imagine 2058″ - a journey through time. London United’s Aladin took centre stage… |
Kate Andrews |
09/17/08 |